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[gecko@xxxxxxxxxx (Darren Benham)]

All a "Standard Distribution" would be is an agreement amoungst gentleman to
follow a set of guide lines when making a distribution.  There is nothing
compulsive.  Anybody would be free to make a distribution that doesn't follow
the "standard".  But if the majority of distributions agree to follow a set of
guidelines, the big software giants (and the little guys) can know what to
expect from these distributions and write code accordingly without haveing to
write a seperate package for each distribution.  The "standard distribution"
would be more of an "accepted practice by the big names in Linux"

On 19-Aug-98 Adams, Simon wrote:
> 
> I'm pretty new to linux and am still confused to a certain extent on the
> issues behind GPL etc. But my understanding of Linux is that Linux is the
> kernel only and the rest distributions who are free to put anything on top. 
> 
> There fore how can you have a standard distribution. Or are we only talking
> about core sets of utilities.

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